"It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves"

-- Arthur Miller

“My parents didn't play golf.”
“Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been... I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it.”

Source : Interview with Donald J. Albers, published in Donald J. Albers and Gerald L. Alexanderson "Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews", 1985.
“I try not to date musicians. It's all I've dated. Every guy I've dated is a musician. Obviously, it's not working.”
“Empty canvas. In appearance - really empty, silent, indifferent. Stunned, almost. In effect - full of tensions, with thousand subdued voices, heavy with expectations. A little frightened because it may be violated”
“Omit a few of the most abstruse sciences, and mankind's study of man occupies nearly the whole field of literature. The burden of history is what man has been; of law, what he does; of physiology, what he is; of ethics, what he ought to be; of revelation, what he shall be.”
“You're in the public eye and you get treated better than royalty, and then you're dropped down to earth with nothing. You may not have any money for rent, and you have no friends because they all think you're big and famous now.”
“Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.”
“If you know how much reality is getting in, then you know a great deal about what a person sees to be true.”

Source : David J. Lieberman (2007). “You Can Read Anyone: Never be Fooled, Lied To, Or Taken Advantage of Again”, p.109, David Lieberman

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